The following was the actual time at sea and distances in nautical miles from point to point on the courses steered, approximately:
| Days. | Distance. | |
| From Paranagua to Santos | 1 | 150 |
| " Santos to Rio de Janeiro (towed by Finance) | ¾ | 200 |
| " Rio to Cape Frio | 2 | 70 |
| " Cape Frio to Carvellas | 4 | 370 |
| " Carvellas to Saint Paulo | 3 | 270 |
| " Saint Paulo to Bahia | ½ | 40 |
| " Bahia to Pernambuco | 5 | 390 |
| " Pernambuco to Barbadoes | 19 | 2,150 |
| " Barbadoes to Mayaguez | 5 | 570 |
| " Mayaguez to Cape Roman | 13 | 1,300 |
| — | —— | |
| 53¼ | 5,510 |
Computing all the distances of the ins and outs that we made would considerably augment the sum. To say, therefore, that the Liberdade averaged a hundred and three miles a day for fifty-three days would be considerably inside the truth.
This was the voyage made in the boat which cost less than a hundred dollars outside of our own labour of building. Journals the world over have spoken not unkindly of the feat; encomiums in seven languages reached us through the newspapers while we lay moored in Washington. Should the same good fortune that followed the Liberdade attend this little literary craft, when finished, it would go safe into many lands. Without looking, however, to this mark of good fortune, the journal of the voyage has been as carefully constructed as was the Liberdade, and I trust, as conscientiously, by a hand, alas! that has grasped the sextant more often than the plane or pen, and for the love of doing. This apology might have been more appropriately made in the beginning of the journal, maybe, but it comes to me now, and like many other things done, right or wrong, but done on the impulse of the moment, I put it down.
CHAPTER XVI
Ocean Currents—Visit to South Santee—At the Typee River—Quarantined—South Port and Wilmington, N.C.—Inland sailing to Beaufort, Norfolk and Washington, D.C.—Voyage ended.
No one will be more surprised at the complete success of the voyage and the speedy progress made than were we ourselves who made it.
A factor of the voyage, one that helped us forward greatly, and which is worthy of special mention, was the ocean current spoken of as we came along in its friendly sway.